Hazli Sham Kassim is the Senior Vice President, Malaysia Assets and CEO of PETRONAS Carigali San. Bhd., a role he assumed on effective 1 June 2025. With more than 30 years of experience and service in PETRONAS, Hazli brings a wealth of expertise in technical services, field development, petroleum engineering and asset management, both in Malaysia and international operations.

Tanya Colwell is a Product Manager with GeoSoftware based in Calgary, Canada. With more than 25 years of experience in the energy industry, she leads product strategy for seismic reservoir characterization, quantitative interpretation, and AI-enabled geoscience solutions. She works closely with customers, researchers, and development teams to apply advanced technologies to exploration and production, energy transition challenges. Holding Master's degrees in Applied Mathematics and Computational Science, Tanya's expertise spans seismic inversion, reservoir characterization, machine learning, and digital subsurface technologies. She is responsible for HampsonRussell product direction, market strategy, and customer engagement across GeoSoftware's geoscience portfolio. Tanya is a frequent speaker at international conferences and industry workshops, sharing practical insights and lessons learned from the application of AI and advanced science workflows in reservoir characterization.

Dr. Mette Kristensen is Exploration Manager Malaysia for Shell, based in Miri, Sarawak. She has more than 20 years of industry experience spanning specialist geoscience, development, appraisal, unconventionals and exploration, with roles across the UK North Sea, Europe, the Americas and Malaysia. She holds a PhD in structural geology from the University of Aarhus and University College Dublin, and has built her career around integrating geological insight, subsurface uncertainty and commercial framing to identify and progress material opportunities. Mette is a passionate explorer who enjoys the detective work of finding data, testing ideas and working with diverse experts to build stronger geological concepts and better drill decisions. In her current role, she leads Malaysia Exploration’s growth agenda, with a focus on strengthening the portfolio, accelerating high-quality opportunities and improving the pace and quality of technical decision-making. She is particularly interested in how machine learning and artificial intelligence can help exploration teams move faster without losing geological discipline: by improving data access, surfacing patterns, challenging bias, and enabling better integration across subsurface, commercial and strategic workflows. At the EAGE workshop, Mette brings a practitioner’s perspective on how AI-enabled workflows can support exploration teams in making clearer, faster and more value-focused decisions.

In Swarup’s role as Director, Energy & Resources Industry, Asia, he works extensively with energy companies, in particular O&G companies, across the Asia-Pacific region. Swarup is focussed on leveraging Microsoft’s differentiated cloud technology and innovation capabilities to drive digital and AI transformation for O&G organisations, often working with Microsoft’s extensive partner ecosystem. Swarup is an experienced Strategy and Transformation professional, with twenty years' experience, focussed on the energy and resources industry. He brings a unique combination of strategy, digital transformation, and commercial skills, and has served major organisations on a spectrum of issues, from making strategic decisions with confidence, through to leading change to deliver bottom line outcomes. At Microsoft, Swarup works with business and technology leaders at major Energy organisations to shape and accelerate their digital transformation journeys. He focusses on supporting them to drive value in the core business through data, analytics and AI, and establish new capabilities for the energy transition. Prior to Microsoft, Swarup has worked with several executive teams to lead projects resulting in bottom line impact > $100m, demonstrating an ability to shape the direction of change, drive implementation, and build capabilities at management and operational level. Swarup holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Telecommunications, 1st Class Honours) and Bachelor of Computer Science from R.M.I.T. University and an MBA (Dean’s List) from Melbourne Business School.

Hj. Jamari Mohd Shah is the Custodian and Group Technical Authority (GTA) Petrophysics for PETRONAS, with more than 27 years of experience in the oil and gas industry. He provides technical assurance, governance, and strategic leadership across exploration, development, production, abandonment, and Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) projects for both domestic and international assets. A recognised specialist in reservoir characterization, Hj Jamari has led reservoir evaluations and technical assurance assignments in more than 40 countries, covering conventional and unconventional resources. He authored the PETRONAS Petrophysical Workflow and Methodology Manual, and founder of COREAI and ERMAI, PETRONAS' first AI-powered platforms for core data, well log, and subsurface interpretation, establishing the foundation for AI-enabled petroleum engineering. Hj Jamari holds a Bachelor of Petroleum Engineering from University Technology Malaysia. He holds a BSc in Petroleum Engineering from University Technology Malaysia.

Dip Nanda is the Founder and CEO of Rezlytix Technologies, an AI-driven geoscience and subsurface intelligence company focused on helping energy operators unlock greater value from data. With nearly two decades of experience spanning geophysics, reservoir characterization, seismic interpretation, production forecasting, and digital transformation, he has led the development and commercialization of multiple award-winning AI and analytics solutions deployed across the global energy sector. Dip holds an M.S. in Geophysics from the University of Houston and a dual degree in Geology from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur. Prior to founding Rezlytix, he held technical and leadership positions with Lumina Technologies, Global Geophysical Services, and Geokinetics in Houston, working on major unconventional and conventional reservoirs worldwide. He is also an active contributor to industry research, with publications in SEG and EAGE, and serves on technical committees supporting the advancement of AI/ML applications in subsurface workflows. A recognized innovator in subsurface intelligence, Dip combines deep domain expertise with practical AI implementation experience, helping energy companies translate complex geoscience data into faster, more confident, and value-driven decisions.

Pierre has over 30 years of experience working in upstream growth projects with a focus on South-East Asia. Pierre previously worked with Lundin and Roc Oil with oversight of subsurface and growth across both Groups’ Asian portfolios. He served as Technical & Business Development Director SE Asia for Lundin and as GM - Exploration, Geoscience & Business Development for Roc Oil & Director ROC Oil Malaysia. Pierre also previously worked at TotalEnergies and Cairn Energy plc in the United Kingdom, India and on new venture projects globally. Over his time at Cairn Pierre was closely associated with the discovery of the Cairn Rajasthan fields in India. In Malaysia, Pierre co-founded Topaz, an exploration company instrumental in bringing the 2A PSC & Kertang prospect into the Seascape portfolio. Pierre now leads the Seascape business in Malaysia with remit across SE Asia.

Dr. Eirik Larsen is co-founder of Earth Science Analytics (ESA), established in 2016, and serves as Senior Geoscientist. He has more than 20 years of international experience in petroleum exploration, subsurface interpretation, prospect evaluation, basin analysis, and exploration portfolio management across Europe, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and India. Eirik's current work focuses on applying artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data-driven workflows to accelerate subsurface understanding and support exploration decision-making. He has been a key contributor to the development of EarthNET, ESA's suite of AI-enabled geoscience workflows designed to enhance seismic interpretation, prospect definition, and knowledge integration. A frequent contributor to industry publications and conferences, Eirik is particularly interested in the practical application of AI in geoscience, helping organizations integrate digital technologies while preserving the value of domain expertise. His work focuses on enabling effective collaboration between geoscientists and AI to improve exploration outcomes and maximize business value.

Ali Tabatabai is Chief AI Officer at AFED Digital, where he builds enterprise AI systems for the upstream energy sector. He has spent over 15 years designing and delivering large-scale digital solutions as a software and solution architect, with a consistent focus on systems built for scale and performance. Alongside oil and gas, his experience spans aviation, fintech, and logistics. For the past 11 years, he has been based in Malaysia, working on digital transformation and large-scale digital delivery in upstream, including PETRONAS programs under TriCipta AI such as AI.SEEK, GEB.SEEK, and GEB. He has worked on transformation and change management long before either became a boardroom term. His current work addresses the gap between what most organizations call AI and what AI can actually be. He describes three levels of maturity: Takers, who consume AI as it ships; Tailors, who configure and fine-tune it; and Transformers, who build an external brain, a decision support system that carries the organization's own data, workflows, and thought process. Most failed pilots, he argues, are Taker architectures judged against Transformer expectations. He has served as a panelist at the SPE conference in Kuala Lumpur and as a speaker and panelist at OTC Asia.